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We have determined that your Apple Developer Program membership, or another membership associated with your developer account, has been used for dishonest or fraudulent activity. This is prohibited by Section 3.2(f) of the Apple Developer Program License

We have determined that your Apple Developer Program membership, or another membership associated with your developer account, has been used for dishonest or fraudulent activity. This is prohibited by Section 3.2(f) of the Apple Developer Program License Agreement:

"You will not, directly or indirectly, commit any act intended to interfere with the Apple Software or Services, the intent of this Agreement, or Apple’s business practices including, but not limited to, taking actions that may hinder the performance or intended use of the App Store, B2B Program, or the Program.”

As a result of this activity, you are no longer able to submit updates.

Continuing to engage in dishonest or fraudulent acts may result in the removal of your apps from the App Store and termination of your Apple Developer Program membership and all associated memberships.

This letter is not intended to be a complete statement of the facts regarding this matter, and nothing in this letter should be construed as a waiver of any rights or remedies Apple may have, all of which are hereby reserved

Imagine you've been pulled over for questioning...who knows what happens as the investigation proceeds. They may just be watching your (frozen) account so they can gather additional information before they take additional action.

I am in the same situation, got the same message yesterday. I now sent them a reply and an appeal, I am waiting for a response.

Let me tell you what happened with my account. 3 years ago I started develop an app, some soccer results for my country league. The app was successful, so I developed another one for another country. And so on, in the end I had an app for almost each country. After one year, in a call with a guy from Apple, they told me I should think at aggregating all these apps into one, for that moment is ok, but in the future it won't be. I didn't do it, obviously, all my installs came because I was on niches, with one app could be impossible competing with the other apps. Suddenly, on 22 February 2017, all my apps were removed from sale. ALL. Including other unique apps I had, everything, absolutely everything got removed. I tried to call me, get into touch with them, nothing. In the I tried updating some of them, they explained me that I need to have only one app of a kind. So I started doing that. They didn't care I had other apps there, they asked me to update them and if they were ok, they will aprove them. In the end I got 5 apps online. 4 old apps and one new app. Everything seemed fine, I was able to update them few times. Except few days ago, when I got that message for all of them.

This is my story. So, initially, they punished be by removing all apps. I said ok, maybe I deserved it. Now, it seems they decided to punish me more.

PS: I got the same message for a totally new app I submitted. In the message they say something about "updated", but that app was not an update, it was a new app.

They have been ignoring us for more than 2 months now. We tried reaching them from Resolution Center, Calling on various numbers, Using Contact us feature, Nothing from them

They rejected few of our applications saying Design Spam and suggsted us to consolidate our applications.

This was the note :

We noticed that your app provides the same feature set as many of the other apps you've submitted to the App Store; it simply varies in content or language.

Apps that simply duplicate content or functionality create clutter, diminish the overall experience for the end user, and reduce the ability of developers to market their apps.

Next Steps

To resolve this issue, please combine apps with similar feature sets into a single "container" app (using the in-app purchase API to deliver different content if appropriate).

So when we actually made these changes , created a container app with various packages (These packages were apps before )and submitted again for review, they rejected it within hours under the same clause.

How to reach them guys, we want to ask them what can we do to actually comply. any suggestions?

We are even ready to bundle all our similier looking applciation into one app as they are suggesting. We have over 200 apps live on app store with huge number of active users.

Such a pity that the app users are not getting any update from our end now.

I got the same at 21th Aug. I'm from Russia and it's quite strage. It has never been my intention to violate any licence agreement nor do anything wrong in regards to my software development activities.

I mean, from which page did you write them? Or maybe you just wrote to their mail? For me I used a form which appears when I try to enter to my account on developer.apple.com - there I have a message "Need assistance with accessing your developer account?" and a form which I can use to get this assistance (type a message to them)

Yes, It was terminated two month ago without any warnings. I sent a lot of letters in all forms available. No any responses. Since two month it seems re-instate process was initiated. But! Its regarding bans of russian developers in one day about dozen accounts(21 of Aug), so it can take place a specifi case related for example with politics.

They won't respond you, don't bother anymore. If your account is closed, forget about it. What you can do is sharing your "mistakes". Why they closed the account? Did you have templates apps? Did you have spam apps? Did you have complaints?

Our account has not been closed yet.They have given us a notice in resolution center as a rejection note. The rejection note header reads PLA 3.2 (f). We are still able to prapare apps for submission and submit new apps. but when we submitted a fresh app after combining releated apps into one app, they replied with same rejection note ..PLA 3.2 (f)

Apple ***** now. I was a developer for them since Steve was alive. Now Apple just thinks about profits. So they close your account, they keep your $100 dollars... how much do you think they are earning now?

Move on and start developing for Nintendo Switch or Xbox (look at the profits the indie team made using Unity to develop cuphead). Apple was profitable in the past...today only the elite can develop for them (Rovio, EA, Sega,...). They decided that they just want branding apps and games. Not indies anymore. The same indie developers that help them grow up as an app store (remember fandango??).

Well... needs a proof? Once you receive a reply from Apple Review Team, do you still receive their feedback email? Nope? Bingo! You are just nothing for them..you spent $100 for nothing. Move to another area that is growing up faster and it is easier to earn money: consoles. Start with Xbox, PC and Nintendo Switch. If you use Unity, you can easily deploy to them.

No, after one year...i tried to reappeal and they wrote the same excuse that they use to close my account...

We have determined that your Apple Developer Program membership, or another membership associated with your developer account, has been used for dishonest or fraudulent activity. This is prohibited by Section 3.2(f) of the Apple Developer Program License Agreement:

"You will not, directly or indirectly, commit any act intended to interfere with the Apple Software or Services, the intent of this Agreement, or Apple’s business practices including, but not limited to, taking actions that may hinder the performance or intended use of the App Store, B2B Program, or the Program.”

As a result of this activity, you are no longer able to submit updates.

Continuing to engage in dishonest or fraudulent acts may result in the removal of your apps from the App Store and termination of your Apple Developer Program membership and all associated memberships.

This letter is not intended to be a complete statement of the facts regarding this matter, and nothing in this letter should be construed as a waiver of any rights or remedies Apple may have, all of which are hereby reserved

Apple does not need more indies... better move to other platforms...they are just accepting publishing companies and third party established companies... Steve Jobs helped us a lot but with Tim Cook, i dont see why i need to keep purchasing costly hardware which i wont use anymore. I was a developer, they dont want me as a developer anymore so lets move on. I will sell my stuff because there other things i could invest now to make money. Apple is now arrogant. Im sure other developers that are having this situation now are thinking the same thing: i will stop purchasing expensive stuff from apple because i dont need to have the ultimate iphone x, ipad pro, apple tv 4k or macbook pro touch bar 15" 512Gb anymore. Im gonna sell the iphone x and buy i samsung device. Sell the ipad pro because with a samsung note 8 i can do everything i need to. Apple tv i can replace for android boxes which allows me to put kodi instead of paying Apple rentals ($$$) to watch movies instead of Google for example ($$). And in the end macbooks are really good for working with photos but if you dont need to work with photos since you can not be a developer....so get a cheaper notebook instead. Save money. Pay no more for this abusive company that looks likes a social alpinist. Once at the top, you know how it ends...

Originally they rejected the app saying i needed written persmission to use his name, so i resubmitted app with a signed letter of consent from the public figure but now apple has responded asking again for consent.

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